Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011
12:05 pm
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
That is because we must have the evidence to support it. By the same token, there were 100,000 reviews of claims last year. I have provided information to the committee in respect of targeted investigations and using data in a more intelligent way to target specific areas where we think there is a potential for fraud and reviewing claims on that basis.